""Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.""

#PokemonGO: Strong Pokemon.Weak Pokemon.That is only the selfish perception of people.Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.I've always really liked this quote from Gold/Silver.Imagine if the original games had 150 Pokemon to catch but removed your choice in which ones you actually get to use so you couldn't use your favorites. Would the franchise have taken off the way it did?There are about 500 Pokemon in Pokemon Go. Only around 20 are playable in any given battle league. And even then, if you missed an important Community Day months ago and don't have an Elite TM, tough luck.Not all Pokemon are going to be great battlers, but I wish more of the ones I like were at least playable. The original games had this message that each one is unique and a good trainer unlocks the potential in each one so they can use the ones they enjoy using. And you actually could, because the games were well balanced. If Sandslash was your favorite and you really wanted to use it against the Elite Four, you could find a way to do it.Then Niantic comes along and is like "here's a task to defeat Team Rocket! They're bad because they focus only on brute strength! But also here's Battle League, where the only way to compete is to use one of these handful of Pokemon with these specific, bizarrely overpowered movesets."Imagine a more level playing field, where if you really wanted to run that Sandslash, sure you wouldn't always win but you wouldn't be guaranteed to lose either. More people would be free to experiment with fun combinations of Pokemon and movesets without being constrained by having to counter certain known metas. Sure, there would always be some who are the strongest battlers, but they shouldn't be so overpowering that you CAN'T use anything else.Like I'm really not into the mudbois at all, but was losing repeatedly to the same handful of Pokemon. So I sucked it up and invested in a Whiscash as a counter to those Pokemon, only to face an onslaught of grass Pokemon instead the very next day.I don't want to run in a revolving door of metas/counters/counter-to-the-counters. That's not motivating me to play (and certainly not motivating me to open my wallet).Instead, why not have a well-balanced game that DOES motivate you to craft a team you love and find creative ways to invest in them? Why not keep the original spirit of the games that proved to be a monumental success? via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/3gafoGn